Russell Kennedy Pty Ltd
Level 12, 469 La Trobe Street, Melbourne, VIC, 3000
ACN 126 792 470, ABN 14 940 129 185
Phone +61 3 9609 1555 Fax +61 3 9609 1600 E. info@rk.com.au
About Us
Privacy
RUSSELL KENNEDY PRIVACY POLICY AND DISCLOSURE STATEMENT
In relation to this Russell Kennedy Privacy Policy and Disclosure Statement:
a. "Russell Kennedy" means Russell Kennedy Pty Ltd as nominee for the Russell Kennedy Partnership, the Russell Kennedy Partnership, RK&C Services Pty Ltd, and any of their associated entities.
b. "We" and "us" refer to Russell Kennedy, and "our" has a similar meaning.
Russell Kennedy is subject to the National Privacy Principles as laid out in the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth).
The Russell Kennedy Privacy Policy and Disclosure Statement explains in general terms how our organisation protects the privacy of personal information under the National Privacy Principles. It also articulates the various matters which we are required to disclose to individuals under National Privacy Principles 1.3 and 1.5. The principles set out in this Russell Kennedy Privacy Policy and Disclosure Statement apply to any personal information you provide to us by any means including our website or under any agreement or arrangement, and to information which we may collect in regard to you from other sources.
This Russell Kennedy Privacy Policy and Disclosure Statement does not apply to acts and practices of a Russell Kennedy entity which relate directly to the employee records of that Russell Kennedy entity's current and former employees.
Gaining access to information that Russell Kennedy possesses in regard to you
Russell Kennedy will upon request provide you with access to personal information held by us in regard to you unless there is an exception which applies under the Privacy Act, including instances in which Russell Kennedy has a legal duty of confidentiality or non-disclosure.
We will respond to any request by you to obtain access to your information within a reasonable time. We reserve the right to recover reasonable costs from you in providing such access.
Should access to any information be refused, Russell Kennedy will provide you with an explanation for the refusal, and inform you of any exceptions under the Privacy Act relied upon as the basis for such a refusal.
Contacting us
Should you wish to gain access to your personal information or lodge a complaint in regard to any breach of your privacy, or should have a query in regard to how your personal information is collected or utilised by us, or in regard to any other query relating to Russell Kennedy's Privacy Policy and Disclosure Statement, please contact our Privacy Officer:
General Manager
Russell Kennedy Pty Ltd
Level 12, 469 La Trobe Street, Melbourne
Tel: 03 9609 1600
How Russell Kennedy collects your personal information
In most circumstances, Russell Kennedy collects your personal information directly from you.
As an example, we may collect personal information about you when you correspond with us via telephone, facsimile, email or letter, subscribe (electronically or otherwise) to any of our publications or when you have contact with us in person.
Typically, the personal information we collect about you includes your name, mailing address, telephone number and e-mail address. Russell Kennedy may also collect information about you such as membership of a professional or trade association, or health information.
Sensitive information is only collected and stored in particular circumstances such as:
Circumstances may arise in which when we require personal information about you sourced from a third party. As an example, Russell Kennedy may collect personal information from a company for whom you are employed or to which you provide services, a credit reporting or rating agency, or an information service provider. We may also source information from a publicly maintained record, or from other organisations with whom you may have dealings.
Maintaining currency of your personal information
Russell Kennedy commits to ensuring that all reasonable procedures are followed to ensure that your personal information is accurate, complete, and up to date whenever we collect or use it.
If any of the personal information held by Russell Kennedy about you is inaccurate, incomplete or out of date, please contact us immediately and we will take all reasonable steps to correct any such information. If this cannot be resolved through this process, we commit to discussing alternative courses of action with you.
Our disclosure statement
Russell Kennedy collects personal information for the following purposes of:
In circumstances whereby you do not provide Russell Kennedy with information requested, we may not be able either to provide you with appropriate legal advice or to fulfil another applicable purpose of collection.
In some instances, Russell Kennedy may source personal information about you from a third party. When this occurs, we will take reasonable steps to inform you of this.
If you are our client or are employed by, contracted to, or an agent to a client of Russell Kennedy, we may disclose your personal information to:
In other circumstances we may disclose your personal information to our clients where your personal information has been collected by us in the course of providing legal services to those clients.
How Russell Kennedy utilises or discloses your personal information
Russell Kennedy uses and discloses personal information for the primary purpose for which we collect it. We may also use and disclose personal information for purposes such as invoicing, reminder notices, provision of information concerning legal developments, invitations to seminars and other events, market research, to improve our service and communications and in respect of other services offered by Russell Kennedy. We will not disclose personal information collected by us to third parties for the purpose of allowing them to direct market any products and services to you.
Russell Kennedy engages third party contractors to perform services for us which may involve the contractor handling personal information held by us. As an example, third party contractors may be engaged to store and archive completed client files.
Russell Kennedy’s use of cookies
When you visit our website – www.rk.com.au, our server attaches a small data file called a "cookie" to your computer's memory.
Cookies are pieces of information that may be transferred to your computer's memory when you visit a website for record keeping purposes. Most web browsers are set by default to accept cookies. If you do not wish to receive any cookies from us, you should set your web browser to refuse cookies.
At Russell Kennedy, we use cookies to provide us with aggregate (anonymous) information on how people use our website, and to help us to know what they find interesting and useful on our website. We do not link this information to your identity or to any other information provided by you. There is no information identifying you stored inside any cookies.
Collection of anonymous information via our website
As most website owners and operators do, Russell Kennedy tracks usage patterns on our website on an anonymous aggregate basis. Your identity cannot reasonably be ascertained from such information. Each time you visit our website – www.rk.com.au, a web server makes a record of your visit.
Specifically, it records your:
Information on other people that you provide to Russell Kennedy
If you or your organisation is subject to privacy law and you provide personal information to Russell Kennedy in regard to someone else (such as one of your directors or employees or someone with whom you have dealings), you must ensure that you are entitled to disclose that information to us and that, without us taking any further steps required by privacy laws, Russell Kennedy may collect, utilise and disclose such information for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy and Disclosure Statement.
As an example, you must take reasonable steps to ensure the individual concerned is aware of the various matters detailed in this Privacy Policy and Disclosure Statement as those matters relate to that individual, including our identity, how to contact us, our purposes of collection, our information disclosure practices, that individual's right to obtain access to the information, and the consequences for the individual if the information is not provided.
Sharing information within the Kemp Strang group
Each Kennedy Strang member firm may disclose personal information to other Kennedy Strang firms which in turn will use and disclose the information in accordance with this Privacy Policy and Disclosure Statement. Contact with all Kennedy Strang entities should be initiated via Russell Kennedy’s Privacy Officer as detailed in this statement.
How Russell Kennedy secures your personal information
Russell Kennedy will take reasonable steps to protect personal information held by us from misuse and loss. We also protect such information from unauthorised access, modification and disclosure.
Your personal information may be stored by us either in hard copy documents or as electronic data in our information technology systems.
Russell Kennedy maintains a high level of physical security over our hard copy and electronic data stores and premises, such as locks, alarms and barrier systems.
We also maintain a high level of computer and network security. As an example, we use firewalls and other security systems in our electronic communications systems, such as user identifiers and passwords to control access to our computer network.
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